Argentina overtakes Venezuela as South America's biggest default risk
Brazil's social welfare program extended to 700000 families
| Immigrant and Latino vets have to navigate another level of complexity. East LA native Ruben Treviso came back from the Vietnam War in 1971 “all messed up,” he says. But his mental health was a top priority for his Veterans Administration doctors, ... |  89.3 KPCC |
| “The poor billions in Africa, Asia and Latin America, who spend 80, 90 percent of their income on food - if the food price goes up 10, 20 percent that has an immediate impact. Those people are more vulnerable. Just the recent food price spike from ... |  Voice of America |
| When there is so much miserable poverty in Honduras and very little hope that the government will make things better or that the wealthy will shared their wealth and become more involved in addressing the social inequities of the society, ... |  Honduras Weekly |
| Although their stories are wildly different, both Federico and Jan Luis have together helped fuel the Dominican Republic's banana boom. The country is the UK's biggest supplier in value terms, with more than half of all their bananas exported to our ... |  The Guardian |
| For later generations, escaping the widespread poverty of the northeast customarily meant moving to livelier southeastern cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, though many migrants still ended up living in favelas, or slums. |  Los Angeles Times |
| Discrimination and human rights violations are causing Latin American LGBT activists and organizations to fight for their right to protection, and their governments seem to be listening. Throughout Latin America gay rights ranging from same-sex ... |  Gay Star News |
| In the past few years, a wave of pro-LGBT legislation has swept through the region, as well as a growth of LGBT rights groups pressing for stronger protections. AS/COA Online explores Latin American and Caribbean legislation pertaining to LGBT ... |  AS/COA Online |
| The move comes two years after Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. It is the latest in a spate of liberal rulings on civil rights issues, including a law that decriminalizes abortion in rape cases and gives the ... |  New York Times |
| I take solace in the fact that we have accomplished so much and taken our rightful place in a long and proud history of what is America's original people. the , weight , of , being , native , american , , |  PolicyMic |
| The orientation towards a legal reform that must introduce in the Haitian law new concepts in order to give to the electronic document the qualities recognized to the paper documents, starting with the State Press. The orientation infra-structural ... |  Haitilibre.com |
| ... since, taken with a serious congestion because of course of the new services put in place for the arrival of Haitian families arrived from Haiti, but also because of the population growth of other communities that came to settle in Saint-Michel and ... |  Haitilibre.com |
| Thousands of families have already been forcibly evicted since January 2010 without any due process and were made homeless once more. Durable solutions to provide adequate housing to those affected are slow to be implemented. Haiti - Social : Risk of ... |  Haitilibre.com |
| SANTIAGO - Chile's government has ordered about half a million pigs to be evacuated from a meat processing plant where they were abandoned, prompting locals to riot over foul odours, local media said Saturday. Residents in the town of Freirina, ... |  AsiaOne |
| By Jesse Hyde PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — It's been over two years since the earthquake hit Haiti that killed over 300000 people and left close to 1 million homeless. One in every two Americans, and thousands from Utah, donated to the relief effort. |  ksl.com |
| Earlier in the month, the League of United Latin American Citizens expressed its support for Obama's pro-marriage statement. “We have witnessed firsthand how painful it can be when LGBT partners are denied the rights and benefits of marriage,” LULAC ... |  Dallas Voice |
| Nationally that adds up to an additional 150000 deaths, according to Dr. Daniel Lashof, director of the NRDC's climate and clean air program, and Dr. Larry Kalkstein, senior professor of geography and regional studies at the University of Miami in ... |  Plain Dealer |
| Barclays Capital economist Marcelo Salomon says Brazil is "tarnished, but still alluring." Two things worth noting about Brazil. It's not the old high risk banana republic it once was. It's got more middle class now than poor, though poverty is still a ... |  Forbes |
| Food stamps aren't counted in the official poverty measure but they helped 4.4 million people stay above the poverty line. The Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit aren't officially counted either but they kept 9.3 million people out of ... |  The Nation. (blog) |
| Early childhood is the single most prolific period of development for children—90 percent of a child's brain growth occurs between birth and the age of three. Children in poverty, however, frequently do not have access to the same educational and ... |  Policyshop (blog) |
| However Luiz Mott PhD, who is founder of the oldest LGBT group in Latin America, Grupo Gay de Bahia, welcomed the news but told Gay Star News that he is realistic about the chances for the bill. He said: 'In my opinion, this approval of gay marriage by ... |  Gay Star News |
| Legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary widely across Latin America, from countries like Argentina and Uruguay that allow same-sex unions to countries such as Belize and Jamaica that outlaw sexual relations ... | AS/COA Online |
| They suffer from extreme poverty and lack proper educational and medical facilities, needs that are being addressed by the Academy Mortgage Foundation. Upon their arrival in Secanquin, Hickman, MacPherson and their group started working alongside the ... |  Dixie Press Online |
| The Mayans have long endured stark inequities in Guatemala; their villages were plagued by poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and crime. During the war, over 200000 people were killed. Most were Mayan civilians, and the United Nations found that 93 ... |  International Business Times |
| Now it's Brazil's turn. Much is being made of Brazilian threats of huge fines and prison sentences against executives of Chevron after a small leak of oil off the coast. Critics have taken to complaining about Brazil's expensive welfare state and ... |  Minneapolis Star Tribune |
| Customs will strengthen, will strengthen the DGI for Haiti to take off [...] One of the biggest problems we had at the state level, it is a lack of resources and each time, we were obliged to seek international partners to come up with ways to help us, ... |  Haitilibre.com |
| Photo: Percy Ramirez/Oxfam America The more I learn about Oxfam's work in South America—and I've learned a lot in recent months—the more impressed I am by the power of women. Indigenous people in countries like Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador have ... |  Oxfam America |
| The stylus sound continues as the jazz pianist's trio nails the old-fashioned lilt of this 19th-century danzon, which is played at almost every wedding, birthday party or anniversary party where Cubans or Cuban Americans gather. |  Washington Post |
| By Carlos Lauría/CPJ Americas Senior Program Coordinator Stressing concerns of human rights groups about the deterioration of press conditions under the administration of President Rafael Correa, 17 members of the United Nations submitted ... |  CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog) |
